§ Mr. CorbettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the members of the Appointments Committee advising him on the selection of HM Chief Inspector of Probation and their current occupations; [157002]
(2) if he will list the members of the Appointments Committee advising him on the selection of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and their current occupations. [157003]
§ Mr. Boateng[holding answer 5 April 2001]: The members of the Advisory Panel are Baroness Stern, former Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies; Lord Laming, former Chief Inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate and author of the Laming Report on Modernising the Management of the Prison Service; Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department and chair of the Panel, and Sue Street, Director of the Home Office's Criminal Policy Group.
In appointing Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, the guidelines of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments are being followed.